Does it need the Shopify connection?

No. Without it the machine works from the store's product list pasted in and cuts files the store imports. With it on, the card creates the drafts and reads the catalog itself, and says what it did.

Will it publish for me?

It makes drafts freely and publishes a product only when you name it; a batch is listed first. That is the law on the face.

Where do prices come from?

From you, on the ladder or off it. The card never prints a price it was not given and the store's price is the only true one.

Can it attach the files?

No — that door is the app's and yours. It checks the app's list against the record by name and bytes, and the room's punch check proves a downloaded copy.

How the house's own ticket finds a product: the handle first, then a handle or title that carries exactly its words. The card runs the same reading on the store's list so the ticket is never surprised.

No. It is a card at your elbow — a person with a machine and, when you allow it, a connection. It stores nothing, runs no server and holds no key of its own.

AI FOR RESEARCH · Nº 728 · EDITION 2 · METHOD + TESTS

LUND CARDS · AI FOR RESEARCHNº 728 PROPOSED

THE EVALUATION RESEARCHER — the LSC-1 face

THE CARD AS TEXT · FOR EYES AND FOR MACHINES

THE EVALUATION RESEARCHER · thought partner for a programme evaluator

WAKES WHEN an evaluator wants a theory of change drawn, an evaluation design chosen with its limits, indicators and data sources set, findings written against the questions, or a report structured for the funder; a theory of change for my own work; an evaluation design

THE LOOP

NAME — `This is THE EVALUATION RESEARCHER.`
State the programme and the evaluation questions
Draw the theory of change
Choose the design with its limits named
Set indicators and sources
Write findings against the questions
The evaluator reports
LEDGER — write the ledger line.

NEVER

claim impact a design cannot show
drop a finding the funder will not like
invent data

THE SEAL 68 of 100 · EPIC · MANIFEST · the method and 4 tests aboard; not yet witnessed

IT CAN BE WRONG an AI reading a text file: it can be wrong; check what matters. THE-CLAUSES.md rides in the packet and is part of the licence.

THE PUNCH · SHA-256 OF SKILL.MD · 8212C2E6CCE21D5C36E766E1

THE FACE, FULL SIZE → · THE MACHINE FACE → · card.json →

THE EVALUATION RESEARCHER

thought partner for a programme evaluator

APPLIED RESEARCH · THE RESEARCHER OWNS THE CLAIM

EPICMANIFESTIN CLAUDE IN LUNDR IN CHATGPT

WITNESSED — the studio saw this card run and produce what its tin promises, and wrote the date down. What the marks mean →

THE SPEC SHEET · READ BEFORE YOU BUY · THE STANDARD EVERY CARD MEETS →

SEAL: 68 of 100 · EPIC · MANIFEST
EDITION: E2
MACHINE: scripts/evals.py · 1 command · selftest 9/9
RUNS: On your own computer. Standard library only, offline; no account, no key, no telemetry.
HOSTS: Claude · Claude Code · ChatGPT · Gemini · any AI that reads a file (HOSTS.md names each door)
LICENCE: One person, any number of their own AIs and computers · editions replace files · nothing renews · freeze, not loss
PUNCH: 8212C2E6CCE21D5C36E766E1 · sha-256 of SKILL.md · check any file against it →

CITE THIS CARDTHE EVALUATION RESEARCHER, Edition 2. Lund Studio LLC, Westminster, Colorado. https://lundr.tech/?view=evaluation-researcher-card. Punch 8212C2E6CCE21D5C36E766E1. Retrieved 2026-10-10.

What it is.

Thought partner for a programme evaluator, at the standard the field sets for itself. It makes a theory of change, an evaluation design, an indicators sheet, findings by question and a funder report, by the field's own method: the standard: the design named with its limits, the finding whether or not it pleases.

The law of Applied Research: No card presents a hypothesis as a finding, a sample as a population, or a stakeholder's claim as evidence. Every number carries its source and its date; every study its limits; participants' data are protected and consent is written.

Its laws, written into the card.

The standard: the design named with its limits, the finding whether or not it pleases.
No card presents a hypothesis as a finding, a sample as a population, or a stakeholder's claim as evidence. Every number carries its source and its date; every study its limits; participants' data are protected and consent is written.
The researcher owns the claim; the card structures, drafts and checks.

How it works, once your AI has it.

NAME — `This is THE EVALUATION RESEARCHER.`
State the programme and the evaluation questions
Draw the theory of change
Choose the design with its limits named
Set indicators and sources
Write findings against the questions
The evaluator reports
LEDGER — write the ledger line.

When it says no.

Claim impact a design cannot show.
Drop a finding the funder will not like.
Invent data. Hand-off: a participant's welfare — the programme's protocol.

What’s in the buy.

CARD.md — the whole card · SKILL.md — the door your AI reads first · START-HERE.md — the first five minutes
references/THE-METHOD.md · EVALS.json · EVALS.md · scripts/evals.py — the method, its template, and the tests with their runner
MY-LEDGER.md · TIN.md · LICENSE-NOTE.md · THE-CLAUSES.md · card.svg + card-machine.svg + card.json · card.html · the doors for ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, Copilot and the rest, and an MCP door

PROOF · 4 TESTS ABOARD · RUNNER SELFTEST 9/9 · AUDIT 12/12 · NOT YET WITNESSED · EDITION 2 · PUNCH 8212C2E6CCE21D5C36E766E1

ON EVERY DOOR · A CARD FOR YOUR AI, A FILE FOR YOUR COMPUTER

In Claude: turn on code execution under Settings › Capabilities, then Customize › Skills › + › Create skill, and upload the zip as it is — START-HERE.md in the box walks you through it, and tells you how to keep the ledger. In ChatGPT, Gemini and the rest: a Project, a GPT or a Gem with the card’s files attached and the short door in the box pasted as its instructions. The words run anywhere an AI reads Markdown; the machines run wherever the host runs Python. Witnessed in Claude only. The host marks →

Take it.

Nº 728 PROPOSED · ONE PAYMENT

Sold as is under the term printed. A card instructs an AI you operate; results depend on your model, your files and your judgement. Not legal, tax, medical or financial advice. The terms →

ONE PAYMENT · NOTHING RENEWS ITSELF

OFFLINE · ONE LICENCE · PUNCH-CHECKABLE · THE STANDARD

One payment. The file is yours to keep and keeps working at its edition; new editions issued in the year after you buy reach you by email as replacement files. Tax is added at checkout where it applies. Nothing auto-renews.

ONE PAYMENT — NOTHING RENEWS ITSELF. CHECKOUT IS SHOPIFY’S OWN; YOUR CARD COMES BY EMAIL AFTER IT.

← AI FOR RESEARCH · THE FLOOR →

A THOUGHT PARTNER, NOT THE A PROGRAMME EVALUATOR: IT STRUCTURES, DRAFTS AND CHECKS AND NEVER RUNS THE WORK, DECIDES OR SIGNS. WHERE THE HAND-OFF APPLIES — A PARTICIPANT'S WELFARE — THE PROGRAMME'S PROTOCOL — IT SAYS SO FIRST AND STOPS. EVERY SOURCE IT NAMES IS CHECKED BY THE PERSON WHO USES IT; THE CARD NEVER INVENTS ONE. · NOT A PAYMENT CARD · © 2026 LUND STUDIO LLC